ontogenetic development.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

S. frondaria's body (such as color) can be modified in response to the presence or absence of factors in the environment, on an "ontogenetic" timescale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

What does ontogenetic depth mean and why is it important?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Following this, I compare patterns of static and ontogenetic scaling.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Thus, ontogenetic data can be utilized to dem - onstrate serial homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

A new report suggests that a habitat shift accompanies the ontogenetic change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Verbal language stamps the human evolutionarily, as in ontogenetic development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 2] Reference

Long bone surface textures as ontogenetic markers in centrosaurine ceratopsids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Biological development involves both ontogenetic and phylogenetic considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolutionary Epistemology] Reference

Maybe you could put your ontogenetic depth thingy in the same sidebar or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new (mis)take on an old paper - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

“Settling nature and nurture into an ontogenetic niche,” Developmental Psychobiology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Not only will Nelson gather evidence in support of ontogenetic depth but validate a new research tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [An anniversary, of sorts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Developmental psychobiologists have an evolutionary rationale for the existence of the ˜ontogenetic niche™.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Is this THE Paul Nelson of “ontogenetic depth” fame who PZ says is 3 years tardy with an answer to his question?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Protest Signs. Ever. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The ovum after the nucleus had been re-formed became the cytula, which was the ontogenetic counterpart of the amoeba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Wonder how he could explain the “rapidity” of ontogenetic depth if the Earth is a mere tens of thousands of years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Nelson Day - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

That sexuality is ontogenetic, and in humans is fixed before birth, is not seriously open to debate in the scientific community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause] Reference

This work reinforces another lesson of developmental psychobiology, which is that the relevant aspects of the ontogenetic niche are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

“The ontogenetic depth of a handful of extant animals from the model systems of developmental biology is known with precision”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Species thanks go out to Andrew Farke for checking my work and sending me a ton of papers about centrosaurine ontogenetic development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

But human still have vestigial tails, as well as many other such archaic features, to say nothing of the ontogenetic features of fetuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Short Bit on Intelligent Design] Reference

Hi Paul, I think you forgot to post your explanation of “ontogenetic depth”, and from the context I assume it might connect somewhat to this story.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new (mis)take on an old paper - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

When I saw “ontogenetic depth” and “freshwater” in the same sentence, I hoped maybe we were about to kill two long-awaited birds with one stone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Such a straightforward application of ontogenetic criteria no longer suffices to prove that two adult structures are homologous in the evolutionary sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The addition of an embryo also adds another important data point to the already impressive postnatal ontogenetic series that are available for this clade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neoceratopsian publications for 2008] Reference

His most significant proposal in this regard is an account of generation and inheritance in terms of a material ˜soul™ or animula bearing ontogenetic information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Gassendi] Reference

Further, Gassendi offers his molecular model as a material means of storing ontogenetic information received from the souls of parent organisms (O II 170b-171a, 280b).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Gassendi] Reference

We concentrated on this group during the ontogenetic phase of collecting through which apparently every true zoologist must pass, repeating the history of his science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference

The preserved and imaged elements support a diagnosis of the embryo to Neoceratopsia and allow preliminary observations of ontogenetic transformations within this group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neoceratopsian publications for 2008] Reference

Once upon a time, about two years ago, I dissected a claim by Paul Nelson that he had an objective measure of developmental complexity that he called "ontogenetic depth".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: Their Own Words Archives] Reference

Estes JM, Adzick NS, Longaker MT, Harrison MR, Stern R: Hyaluronate metabolism undergoes ontogenetic transition during fetal development: Implications for scarless wound healing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHOP scarless fetal wound healing publications] Reference

It was a very, very silly idea called "ontogenetic depth".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

The phrase "ontogenetic depth" is used twice in that article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

Perhaps 'ontogenetic depth' is the question to the answer '42'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

That is, maybe the best answer is phylogenetic rather than ontogenetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

Survival analysis based approaches for ontogenetic life-history transitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The phylogenetic disposition makes itself visible behind the ontogenetic process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex] Reference

First, depending on whether ontogenetic, pathological or phylogenetic issues are targeted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Cranial ontogenetic sequence of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis with morphological landmarks highlighted in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We use comparative cranial histology and morphology to confirm how these ontogenetic transformations developed in a single taxon.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

He has entered the evolution-of-flight fray by offering a third rival idea - the ontogenetic transitional wing hypothesis, or OTWH.    From Wordnik.com. Reference